Supporting those afflicted with SWRSDedicated to those who name themselves after U.P. ghost
towns or wish they lived there, or both, or wish they were Finnish, or all three.

Ricedale "Wasas" Stonington, Caretaker

The Road to nowhere and from nowhere. There is not much to say
about Simar, just a place on road signs and in someone's memory.

House on Pori Road in Rousseau. First known as Hubbell's Mills after John Hubbell, who built a
mill to cut a local stand of pine timber in 1882. Later known as Rubicon it was on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. The name was finally changed to Rousseau in 1920 after
Township Supervisor Edward Rousseau. Below, the only sign of life in Rousseau today, the
Rousseau Bar.

My new favorite place, Wasas. (Is this place for sale?, if you own this let me know. I can see
it now; CRRR&CC Historical Museum and Sauna)This wasas the branch of the Mass Co-op in Wasas built in 1929
(wasas a good year to open a new business). Closed in 1969, eight years after the one in Mass City wasas
closed. This is about all there is to Wasas, but right on the CM&St.P tracks and a
stone's throw from McKeever, what more could you want!

A person suffering from SWRS developed the
material presented here. Although this may sound trite, SWRS (Simar Wasas Rousseau
Syndrome), as it is known, afflicts many individuals. The constant urge to visit places
where no one lives anymore, the desire to change your name to that of long forgotten
hamlets. Recounting the history of people you never met and stopping along side the road
to take photos of road signs. In its more dangerous stages SWRS can make people take
countless rolls of photos of nothing but woods, knowing to themselves that something was
once there. In extreme cases they share these photos with others on the Internet and have
been know to even change their middle name to a UP ghost town. Luckly these cases are
rare, only a few have actually been recorded.

To date there is only one cure for this
disease, move to the U.P. For most with SWRS their lives are filled with days of anguish
as they sit in 6 lanes of traffic for 3 hours and listen to DJ's tell you how bad the
roads are when .002" of snow fell last night. This memorial has been established to
honor and support those who continue to suffer with the disease. If you are afflicted with
SWRS, or know someone that is, please send the name (must be made up of UP ghost town
names) and we will post it to show our support of their suffering.

Charter Members of the Simar Wasas Rousseau
Memorial are:

Simar "Woodspur" RousseauDavin Simar Maki

Ricedale "Wasas" StoningtonKevin Wasas Musser

Freda "Frost" Redridge Dick Bates

Quincy "Clifton" HubbellDave Freeze

Raco "Nogi" GroesbeckDoug Polinder

Seewhy 'Bete Grise' WillwalkJack Allen

Hazel "Kitchi" ObenhoffDave Root

Honkin "Donkin" MandanMike Poe

Oskar "Nonesuch" NorwichDavid Krause

Elo "Horju" PaavolaTom Maringer

Pilgrim "Quincy" PerskariAlice Neilson

San Jose YooperMark Shafer

Sidnaw "Pori" CunardJoe Whitens

"AKBAR"Jim Pykonen

Janet "Wasas" WainolaJanet Rumentzas

Senter "Toivola" McKeeverKirk Wishowsk

Phoenix "Cliff" MandanS&L Goodrich

Join today, a secret
handshake and a good name is all it takes to get in. The benefits of joining this Memorial
are many.

1) You get you UP name posted on this page and
inscribed on the great walls of the Simar Wasas Rousseau Memorial.

2) Did I mention that the benefits are many?

Check out my Lake Mine pages to learn more about Northern Ontonagon County. (Other
examples of works done by those suffering with SWRS) If you know of someone suffering from
SWRS and would like to have their page posted here please send Ricedale an email in care
of kevinmusser@copperrange.org

Note: If at any time your name is on the list you move to the U.P. you
must notify us via email as you are considered cured and have risen to a higher plane of
existance, and no one is going to feel sorry for you then. Your name will be removed and
replaced by another poor schmuck.

The SWRS in not affiliated with the Sequim-Sappho-Quinault
Malady, or SSQM of Washington State, but we feel their pain.